Two major rights issues are absent from the document’s proposals: it contains no reference to abortion and does not mention Spain’s euthanasia law. Instead, the Partido Popular proposes a national law on palliative care and says a conceived child would count when a family’s eligibility for benefits is calculated. The PP presented its national programme in Madrid on 10 November 2026, ahead of the 29 November general election, as a broad plan to rebuild Spain.
The family-benefit proposal is one of the programme’s main ideological changes. Alberto Núñez Feijóo had already said he would include it in his national platform after Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s government in Madrid introduced a specific law. The programme also calls for easier access to egg freezing for young women and better access to assisted reproduction through Spain’s National Health System, with age limits reviewed against medical and safety criteria. The platform places these commitments within a wider agenda of institutional, judicial, economic, tax and social reforms, organized around four stated pillars: rebuilding the state, regenerating democracy, reunifying the nation and restoring national ambition. In a separate family-policy commitment, the PP said it would guarantee the CUME benefit for families caring for children with serious illnesses or major dependency. On 9 November, its deputy secretary for Health and Social Policy, Carmen Fúnez, said the government had opposed expanding that benefit on the grounds that it would cost €2.3 million.
For palliative care, the PP says its proposed law would ensure people are not driven to hasten death because alternatives are lacking or they face the end of life alone. The programme presents access to care and support as necessary to living with dignity, while leaving the existing euthanasia law unmentioned. The palliative-care measure is an election pledge, not an enacted replacement for Spain’s existing law.
Another proposal would give priority for certain public benefits and resources to people with a lasting, verifiable connection to Spain. The programme points to residence registration, contribution history, length of stay and contribution to the system as possible criteria. It says they must comply with constitutional and European limits and cannot be based solely on nationality. A separate Seville rural depopulation report covered provincial incentives intended to attract professionals and businesses to municipalities.
The PP also proposes restoring Spanish as the working language of Congress, reversing the rule that permits co-official languages in its debates. It would extend Spanish-language working rules to top-level cooperation bodies between the central government and autonomous communities. In June 2025, Ayuso left the Conference of Presidents at Barcelona’s Palau de Pedralbes over the use of co-official languages.
On migration, the programme calls for longer stays in immigration detention centres within European limits and agreements to establish return centres in third countries. It would also link visas, development cooperation and Spain’s position on European trade policy to whether countries cooperate with readmissions.
For unaccompanied foreign minors, the PP proposes changes to immigration and child-protection laws, prioritizing family reunification. It also proposes creating an offence covering fraud over identity, age or nationality to obtain protection, and replacing the requirement for an individual report on a child’s country of origin with alternative safeguards for return.
Feijóo separately outlined a proposed activation income combining the minimum living income and other subsidies. Beneficiaries would sign training and job-search agreements; repeated, unjustified refusal of suitable work would lead to a gradual loss of support. He also called for a plan to tackle fraudulent workplace absenteeism, saying the PP would pursue those who improperly claim benefits. Feijóo presented the programme as a nationwide alternative to the policies of Pedro Sánchez’s government, with its proposals set out as an agenda for the 29 November election.
